August

Steve Jobs rumored to announce new hardware: G4 a
possibility. August 31, 1999 -- Sources all over the
Internet are reporting that Steve Jobs will announce new
hardware products at his keynote
at the Seybold San Francisco show this morning.
Speculation runs from new iMacs to new Power Mac G3 models.
However, we at MacWindows believe there is a good
possibility that Jobs will announce the first Power
Macintosh G4 models, which are rumored to ship this
fall.

If you are reading this after about 10 AM PST Tuesday,
check the Apple web site
for the answer. We'll bring you the cross-platform
aspects of the Jobs speech tomorrow.

MacFixIt makes Cross-Platform forum permanent.
August 31, 1999 -- MacFixIt has made its special Cross-Platform
forum permanent. MacWindows' John Rizzo, originally the
visiting guest host of the Forum, is now the moderator of
the forum.

An explanation of the NT Explorer/ Mac folder bug.
August 31, 1999 -- Rob Newberry of Group Logic, the
developer of the ExtremeZ-IP AFP-over-IP
software for NT, has sent us an explanation of what is
happening with the NT Explorer/ Mac folder bug we reported
yesterday. The problem also occurs with ExtremeZ-IP.
Newberry believes the bug was introduced with NT Service
Pack 4, and that the problem originates in Explorer and not
Services for Macintosh or ExtremeZ-IP. We've posted
Newberry's report on our NT SP4
page.

Farallon ships cross-platform SkyLINE wireless networking PC
Card. August 31, 1999 -- Farallon yesterday began shipping its
SkyLINE
($299.00) wireless networking PC Card devices. SkyLINE includes
drivers for Apple PowerBooks and Windows 95/98 and NT notebooks. Macs
and PCs with Skyline can communicate with each other at 2 MB/sec, or
with other IEEE 802.11 devices, including Apple's iBook running the
Airport wireless option. SkyLINE-equipped computers can connect to a
wired Ethernet network through IEEE 802.11 DSSS compatible access
points from a variety of manufacturers.

Netopia releases netOctopus 3.5, cross-platform systems
management. August 31, 1999 -- Netopia has released netOctopus
3.5, a systems management administration package which the
company says now has a platform-independent architecture. The
software enables cross-platform administration of Windows or Mac
OS-based systems from either a Windows or Macintosh administration
console. netOctopus 3.5 performs inventory and asset management,
software distribution and remediation, and system configuration and
historical analysis, among other tasks.

Update for MacVision, Mac-like interface for Windows.
August 31, 1999 --Yesterday, Jeff Bargmann posted an update to
MacVision, a
program that makes Windows look and act more like Mac OS. The new
version adds an uninstall program, fixes bugs and improves
performance. MacVision gives Windows and Apple menu containing a
control panel menu, among other Mac-like features. (For more on
making Mac and Windows look like each other, see our User
Interface Solutions page.)

When you create a new folder in Windows NT Explorer under
a Services for Macintosh (SFM) volume, the folder "New Folder" is
created, and you are then able to type a name for this folder.
However, when you try to rename the folder, the name reverts back
to "New Folder" after a few seconds.

Microsoft does not yet have a fix for this problem.

Mochasoft SMB client for Mac withdrawn. August 30, 1999 --
Mochasoft has removed Mocha
SMB from its listing of products. Mocha SMB was a $25 shareware SMB
client for Macs, similar to Thursby's
DAVE for enabling Macs to share files on Windows networks. We
first reported Mac SMB on June 14. (Thanks to
Darin Duphorne.)

Compaq drops support for Win NT Alpha; Microsoft to follow.
August 30, 1999 -- Last week Compaq said it will drop Alpha platform
support for Windows NT after the release of Windows NT 4.0 Service
Pack 6, which Microsoft says is scheduled for later this year. Compaq
will not support Alpha versions Windows 2000 and BackOffice.

As a result of Compaq's decision, and the strength of
Intel's architecture and systems, Microsoft will discontinue
development of future 32-bit and 64-bit Alpha products across its
existing product line. Our 64-bit versions of our products will be
targeted at the Intel IA64 architecture.

Microsoft said it will continue to produce Windows NT service
packs and hot fixes for Alpha (SP 6 is to be the final NT 4.0 service
pack). However, Microsoft has discontinued development for Windows
2000:

This means there will not be 32-bit Alpha versions of
Windows 2000, beginning with Release Candidate 2, nor will there
be new 32-bit Alpha releases of SQL Server, Exchange, or other
32-bit Alpha BackOffice products. There will also be no 64-bit
version of Windows or BackOffice developed for the Alpha platform.

(Thanks to Tim Mallon for bringing this to our attention.)

New drivers for Apple DOS/PC Compatibility cards to go beta
October. August 30, 1999 -- Fraser
Valley Distributed Computing Systems has announced another
delay in its
32-bit drivers for the discontinued Apple/Reply/Radius DOS and PC
Compatibility cards for Macintosh. The cards run Windows on a Mac,
but Apple's PC Setup software was never 32-bit compatible. FVDCS says
there will be a beta release of the new drivers (called PC Setup 2.0)
at the end of October. (FVDCS has previously set a ship date of the
end of this summer.

Another fix for Macs crashing when deleting files on NT
server. August 30, 1999 -- Matt Snider was having the the problem
we've reported of Macs crashing when
deleting files on NT Server. A few readers have offered possible
solutions, but Snider traced the problem to a SCSI/IDE control card.
You can read a description of the problem and Snider's message on our
NT Unsolved Mysteries page.

Security hole in NT Server 4.0 SP 4, 5 acknowledged by
Microsoft. August 30, 1999 --Techweb
reports of an NT security hole in Windows NT 4.0 Service Pack 4
that is not corrected in Service Pack 4. The flaw is fixed in Windows
2000, according to Microsoft.

Intel to announce 13 new Pentium III processors. August 30,
1999 -- ZDNet
reports that Intel will announce over a dozen new Pentium III
processors over the next few months. Some will be geared towards
enhancing performance of Windows 2000.

Opening ASIP print queues with Apple Printer Utility.
August 30, 1999 -- Apple Tech
Info Library article 24978 describes how to open an AppleShare IP
Print Server queue using the Apple Printer Utility. You can use it to
send PostScript files to the queue.

Team ASA announces new version of MacServerIP. August 27,
1999 -- Team ASA announced that it would demonstrate a new version of
MacServerIP at the Seybold
Conference in San Francisco next week. (MacServerIP is an
AFP-over-TCP/IP file server for Windows
NT Server.) New features will include a new user interface, beefed up
searching, and easier installation.

It turns out that there were font files that I had loaded into ATM
Deluxe whose ID's were conflicting. Even though none of these fonts
were being used by Outlook, Outlook still gave me the error "Can not
display items, you do not have enough resources...etc." As soon as I
open ATMD and resolved the ID conflicts, the problem went away.

A file search function, by name and by signature. (For
instance, you can find all QuickTime movies on a Mac disk or
CD-ROM.)

Handling of PC media written to by Apple's Exchange (with
correct handling of hidden resource forks, of long filenames, file
suffixes, etc.).

Handling of ISO 9660 CD-ROM burnt on the Mac with Apple's
and/or Joliet extensions. Those disks are often difficult to
exploit under Windows, because of "illegal" characters in the
names of files and folders, or files without suffixes.

MacFixIt reports of a Timbuktu/Virex conflict. August 26,
1999 -- MacFixIt reports of a
bug in Virex 5.9.1 and 6.0 that prevents Timbuktu Pro for Mac from
doing a correct installation.

Reader Outlook problem: can't send messages. August 26,
1999 -- Reader Joseph Re wrote to say that he gets periodically gets
an error message with Outlook for Mac 8.2.1 when he tries to send a
message. It only seems to happen when he creates Personal folders. He
has tried some of the things listed on our Exchange/Outlook
page (including replacing Outlook's OLE files with
Office OLE files), deleting prefs files, to no avail. You can
read Re's message here. If you've
seen this, please let us
know.

Gates "pretty sure" Windows 2000 will ship this year.
August 26, 1999 -- PC
Week quotes Bill Gates saying that he is "pretty sure" Windows
2000 will ship by the end of this year. (Which means Y2K and W2K will
arrive nearly simultaneously...)

Microsoft posts NT Server hotfix for (very) large volumes.
August 25, 1999 -- Microsoft has posted a hotfix
for NT Server (Service Pack 5) that fixes a problem of file
corruption on an NTFS volume with more than 4 million files, or when
the Master File Table (MFT) grows larger than 4 GB. Symptoms:

Deleted files continue to be displayed on the drive

Files that you have not deleted are no longer accessible

An error message says corruption has been detected on the
drive

New hotfix for NT Server addresses Outlook client problem with
Exchange Server. August 25, 1999 -- Microsoft has posted a
hotfix
for Windows NT Server that fixes a problem that causes Outlook
clients to "hang" when connected to an an Exchange Server.

Microsoft Exchange and Outlook Clients

Another Y2K fix for Windows NT. August 25, 1999 --
Microsoft has posted another Y2K
fix for Windows NT Service Pack 5 or earlier. (Service Pack 5
does address some Y2K issues already.)

LinuxPPC posts new installer. August 25, 1999 --
LinuxPPC.org has posted an updated
installer for LinuxPPC on Macintosh, which fixes bugs and offers
other improvements.

Company to produce IBM "open" PowerPC CHRP motherboard.
August 25, 1999 -- MacWEEK
reports that a company called Prophet Systems will create a CHRP
(Common Hardware Reference Platform) PowerPC-based computer using an
IBM design that IBM is giving away for free. CHRP was originally to
be the standard for Macintosh clone makers before Apple stopped
licensing Mac clones. The new PC will run Linux and BeOS, but it is
uncertain if it will run Mac OS.

Keyspan adds a Windows version of its USB-PDA adapter.
August 25, 1999 -- Keyspan's USB
PDA Adapter ($39) is now available in a Windows version. Formerly
Mac-only, the two-ounce adapter plugs into a computer's USB port and
provides a DB9 serial port for connection to the Palm organizer, Palm
organizers, Windows CE PDAs and Sharp Wizards to a Win98 PC.

Microsoft responds to Chinese Outlook problem. August 23,
1999 -- One of our Microsoft contacts responded to our report Friday
of a problem with Outlook for Macintosh receiving messages in Chinese
from Windows users:

Outlook for Macintosh does not support Chinese. The
current version, 8.2.1,
supports four languages: English, Japanese, German, and French. If
a user attempts to install Outlook on a Chinese OS, the install
will fail. Even if a user attempts to run Chinese on a English OS
(either through a language pack or by installing Chinese fonts on
the system), Outlook will not be able to display the Chinese
characters correctly, because Outlook does not support Chinese
code pages.

Outlook 97, 98, and 2000, on the other hand, support Chinese on
Windows, and therefore messages with Chinese characters will
appear as intended.

Fixes a problem when decompressing Stuffit 5 compressed files. The
user may receive an error that the (stuffed) file is corrupt or was
not downloaded properly. This patch fixes an error that occurs when a
user has version 4.5 (or earlier) of Stuffit Expander installed on
the system.

New Solutions page: Book suggestions. August 20, 1999 --
Our new Book Suggestions page lists books
that might be of use to MacWindows readers.

MS Exchange problem with Mac-PC, Roman-Chinese characters.
August 20, 1999 -- A reader with Exchange Server 5.5 w/SP2 is having
a problem with Chinese and Roman characters. When he sends a message
from a PC with Chinese characters, PC's can receive them, but Macs
show other characters. Changing the font to Taipei does not result in
readable Chinese email. If you know the answer to this problem,
please let us know.

Aladdin offers 20 MB free Internet space for Mac, Win.
August 20, 1999 -- Aladdin Systems is offering 20 MB of free storage
space over then Internet in a program called FreeDrive.
It's a

Apple sues another iMac look-alike. August 20, 1999 --
Apple filed
lawsuit against eMachines for the latter company's eOne
PC ($799), which is an iMac copy. The suit asks U.S. Federal Court in
San Jose, California, seeks to stop eMachines from shipping the eOne,
and asks for damages. On July 1, Apple filed a similar
lawsuit against Future Power and Daewoo.

Update to NT Unsolved Mystery: Macs crash when files deleted.
August 19, 1999 -- Roger Menge wrote to share a tip and some info
on a problem of Macs
crashing when trying to delete files on NT Server with "error
-110" (on our NT Unsolved Mysteries page). He suggests deleting the
Mac's Finder Prefs file in the Preferences folder (in the System
folder) and restarting. Menge says this is only a temporary solution.
He also said that Service Pack 5 does not fix the problem, as
suggested by another reader.

New Tip: Another way to move files between Mac OS and
Windows. August 19, 1999 -- Michael Gatto told us of a fast way
to move files between a Mac and a PC. He uses a crossover
Ethernet cable and file sharing software called HotLine.
The Hotline server (US $99.95) runs on one machine, and the Hotline
client (free) runs on the other. (Both are available for Mac and PC.)
Hotline uses a proprietary cross-platform file transfer protocol.

A side benefit is that the HotLine client lets you access several
hundred public HotLine servers that are currently on the Internet.
"Unfortunately, Hotline servers are mostly used for porn junk," said
Gatto, "but you will find some shareware sites and a lot of MP3 files
and other stuff as well."

New Tip: OrangePC card in a Power Mac 4400. August 19, 1999
-- Nabil Khoury reminds us that in order to run an Orange
Micro OrangePC card in an all-in-one Power Mac with a PCI
slot--such as the 5400--you need to use an external multisync monitor
to produce the video. These Macs have a 7-inch PC, so the Orange PC
620 is the only current model that will fit. (Orange PC are
Pentium-compatible coprocessor boards for running Windows on
Macs.)

Apple Releases Darwin 0.3, open source OS X Server. August
19, 1999 -- Apple has released Darwin
0.3, the latest version of its open source OS version of Mac OS X
Server. This is still an early developer release.

IDC study shows companies delaying Win 2000 while adopting
Linux. August 19, 1999 -- Results of an International
Data Corporation study show that Linux usage went from near zero
to 13 percent in two years. The study also shows that most
respondents do not plan to implement Windows
2000 in the next year.

New cross-platform medical billing software. August 19,
1999 -- Silvamber Software, has released Silvamber
Medical Office Manager, medical billing software for Windows and
Macintosh. Designed for those medical practices, clinics and
hospitals, the pricing includes licenses, software, training,
installation and support.

Microsoft posts Outlook for Mac 8.2.1, a bug fix update.
August 18, 1999 -- Yesterday Microsoft posted Outlook
Mac 8.2.1, both the entire client for PowerPC and 680x0, and an
updater for Outlook 8.2 (PowerPC). Both are free. (There's also
German,
French,
and Japanese
versions.) Outlook 8.5.1 has nearly a dozen bug fixes, including:

Drag and drop problem with messages with a blank subject

Can now use Web Services with an SSL-secured (https://) web
server.

Freezing problem when holding down the CTRL key while
double-clicking a hyperlink.

QuickTime file Flattener for Windows converts Mac movies to
Windows. August 18, 1999 -- Pierre Duhem has created QT-Flattener
(also a French
version), a free Windows utility that can combine the resource
and data forks of a QuickTime file created on Mac OS, for use on
Windows. Duhem says "This utility works on MacBinary files and on
pairs of MOV + QTR files (like the ones that the QT Viewer can open
on the PC)." This is the first such utility for Windows that we've
seen. We've added QT-Flattener to our File
Solutions page.

An NT Unsolved mystery with user permissions. August 18,
1999 -- Christine Wong reports of an odd problem with NT Services for
Macintosh. It seems her Mac clients need administrative permissions
in order to log on. Funny thing, it started with old Macs running
7.6.1, and now it's moved to newer Macs running up to OS 8.5. Wong
thinks the problems occurred after a string of power outages. Her
report is on our NT Unsolved
Mysteries page.

Web page compares Mac emulators for PCs. August 18, 1999 --
Simon Biber has a comparison table of Mac
emulators for PCs, including comments on compatibility and speed.
(See also the MacWindows Emulation
Solutions page for descriptions).

Cross-platform compression: DropStuff 5 for Windows
available. August 17, 1999 -- Tomorrow, Aladdin
Systems will release DropStuff
5.0 for Windows ($20, free upgrade for owners DropStuff 1.0 for
Windows). DropStuff 5.0 for Windows uses the same new compression
engine used in DropStuff/StuffIt 5 for Macintosh. The utility can
compress both the new .SIT format and the ZIP format most popular
with PC users. The new version also adds drag-and-drop compression on
a desktop shortcut, and can automatically attach StuffIt-compressed
files to new outgoing email messages.

DropStuff 5 for Windows also includes Aladdin Expander 5.0, the
freeware decompression utility for opening .SIT and .ZIP
archives.

File Solutions update: another Mac-Win font converter.
August 17, 1999 -- We've added FontLab's
TransType ($49.95) font converter utility to the listings on our
File Solutions page (which lists some
other Mac and Windows font converters among other tools). FontLab
says that TransType retains info for "codepages, encodings, font
suitcases, bitmap fonts and other features specific to the Mac or PC
platform." the company also says that it "allows users to convert
fonts in batch mode (two-way conversion is possible as one
operation)."

NetFinder 2.0.1 FTP client now available. August 17, 1999
-- NetFinder
2.0.1 is now out of the beta testing phase, and has been
released. NetFinder is a shareware Mac FTP client can work through
proxy servers that use the SOCKS
protocol, including Microsoft Proxy Server.

Little Be, Inc. reports growth. August 17, 1999 --
Be Inc. yesterday reported revenue
growth of 27 percent for the first six months of this year over the
first six months of 1998. Be makes the Be OS operating system for
Macintosh and Intel PCs.

Citrix posts ICA Client for Macintosh 4.10: lets Macs run NT
apps. August 16, 1999 -- Citrix has posted Version
4.10 of its ICA Client for Macintosh. This thin-client upgrades
ICA Client 3.0, which was released a few weeks ago (see MacWindows
news July 29). The free ICA Client enables Macs to control
Windows NT software applications running on servers along with Citrix
WinFrame and MetaFrame application sharing software.

Advanced info on upcoming ExtremeZ-IP Alpha. August 16,
1999 -- A reader send this information about the upcoming Alpha chip
version of Intergraph's ExtremeZ-IP,
an AFP/IP server for Win NT and Mac
clients:

The Alpha version contains a new feature that allows SFM
and EZIP to both serve the same data and keep the TYPE/CREATOR
info in sync. Interesting...kinda like the same ability in
MacServerIP.

Also, I have heard from another beta tester that says that the
Alpha version will not work at all on Alpha 2100 and 4000 box's...
but it works fine on Alpha workstations 1/500.

Solutions Update: Run command for Mac OS. August 16, 1999
-- We've added MacRun,
a PC-like Run command for the Apple menu, to our User
Interface Solutions page (software that makes a Mac more
Windows-like, and Windows more Mac-like).

Helios offers 5-user version of EtherShare UNIX server for
Mac. August 16, 1999 --HELIOS Software GmbH is offering a new
5-user version of EtherShare
2.5.1 (US $ 1,490), lowering the entry point for the
AppleShare-compatible server for UNIX.

New Tip: Enabling Outlook for Mac to work. August 13, 1999
-- Frequent contributor Richard Birchall sent us a tip on fixing a
problem that prevents Outlook for Mac from working. The problem has
to do with the fact that Outlook "requires that the Mac be able to
resolve the IP address of the Exchange server, by using the host name
of the Exchange server. A very common problem occurs when there is
not a proper entry for the Exchange server in the company DNS server
(or perhaps there is no DNS server at all)." You can read Birchall's
solution on our Exchange/Outlook
page.

Intergraph releases shipping version of ExtremeZ-IP, APF/IP
server for NT. August 13, 1999 -- Intergraph Computer Systems has
released
a full shipping version of ExtremeZ-IP,
an AppleShare (AFP)-over-TCP/IP file server for Windows NT Server and
Workstation. (On July 23, we reported that Intergraph has posted a
demo version.) Like a similar product, MacServerIP,
ExtremeZ-IP replaces NT Services for Macintosh. ExtremeZ-IP for Win
NT Workstation is US $299; the NT Server version is US $999 for 10
clients; unlimited NT Server version is US $1399. ExtremeZ-IP is also
included with some of Intergraph's NT workstation.

Novell to integrate AOL instant messaging in NetWare's NDS,
GroupWise. August 13, 1999 -- A ZDnet
article reports on a Novell/America Online deal that will enable
Novell to incorporate AOL's instant messaging in its NetWare
Directory Services and GroupWise groupware software. On July 30, we
reported that AOL had made an instant messaging deal
with Apple. AOL has been blocking Microsoft software from
communicating with its instant messaging feature.

Reader compares Win NT on BLPE 1.5 vs. Virtual PC. August
12, 1999 -- Tom Zimmer sent us his comments about running Windows NT
on Lismore's Blue Label
PowerEmulator 1.5 and on Virtual PC on an iMac. He had these
conclusions:

Performance of NT on BLPE was better than on Virtual PC

Installing NT by booting from BLPE 's FreeDOS worked; so did
booting from the CD.

Another reader reports Sherlock/NT problem. August 12, 1999
-- Gil Novaez responded to yesterday's report (below) of a problem
where Sherlock finds many instances of a the same item on an NT
server. He has seen it too, but has not seen the corrupted volumes
problem reported yesterday. Novaez runs Mac OS 8.6 accessing NT
Server 4.0 SP5. (We have some other known Sherlock problems listed on
our Mac OS 8.5 page.)

Inventor of Linux speaks at LinuxWorld Expo on the future of
Linux. August 12, 1999 -- Yesterday, Linus Torvalds delivered a
keynote address at LinuxWorld
Conference and Expo in San Jose, CA, outlining the future of the
Linux operating system. He discussed bringing Linux to the desktop
and the notebook with support for standard I/O, including USB, PC
Cards (PCMCIA), and multimedia. You can view Torvalds'
speech via a RealPlayer webcast at Dr. Dobb's Telecast site.

Red Hat stock soars in its IPO. August 12, 1999 -- Red Hat
stock nearly tripled on its first day of trading in it's initial
public offering (IPO). The stock was offered at $14 a share and
closed at just over $52 a share. A ZDNet
story has offers some analysis. (Red Hat is the largest
distributor of the Linux operating system.)

Lismore is back, and with PowerEmulator 1.5. August 11,
1999 -- After it's web site, ftp site, and email server disappeared
from the Internet a week ago without warning, Lismore
Software Systems' electronic presence is back. The company has
not responded to our questions as to why it has ceased to exist for
this long. The web site simply says "This problem now is SOLVED." (We
first reported the disappearance of the lismoresoft domain on Aug.
4.)

New at the Lismore site is Blue Label PowerEmulator 1.5, which has
been available at Club
Mac's Downloadable Software site, as we reported on August 9. Our
prediction was correct, in that the price has been raised, form
$19.95 to $29.95 -- still a very low price given the complexity of
the product. There are also now multiuser and educational prices.
Lismore is also offering a free updater from version 1.0 to 1.5.

BLPE is also the only commercial PC emulator to support Linux.
(Virtual PC stopped supporting Linux with version 2.1.3, and
SoftWindows never ran Linux.)

I'm having a curious problem -- Server is running NT4 SP
5, some Mac clients, many NT and '98 clients. Came in today, Mac
volumes were corrupt. Had to delete them, restart server (which
allowed network trash folders to be deleted, etc.) and re-create
them. Seemed to work fine. Now, when Mac users search items using
Sherlock, the search finds thousands of the same item, until it
runs out of memory (the Mac is running 8.5.1).

Blue Label Power Emulator and Windows NT. August 11, 1999
-- Steve Mansfield reports that running Windows NT on Lismore's
Blue Label PowerEmulator, the NT disk image needs to be on the
Mac's startup disk. When the NT disk image is on any other volume, NT
yields a blue screen crash. He has not tried the new version 1.5
yet.

NetFinder 2.0.1b4 FTP client improves proxy server. August
11, 1999 -- NetFinder
2.0.1b4 is a bug-fix beta update for the Mac FTP client.
NetFinder can work through Proxy Servers that use the SOCKS protocol,
including Microsoft Proxy Server. Among the bug fixes is "added code
to support problematic SOCKS servers." (Se our proxy report for
more on Macs, proxy servers, and
SOCKS.)

SGI dumps NT in favor of Linux. August 11,
1999 -- SGI
announced that it will return to it's UNIX roots by spinning off
its recently created line of NT-based workstations (the Visual
Workstation line). It will also begin offering Linux workstations in
addition to its traditional IRIX workstations. More information also
available in a PC
Week story.)

Cross-platform USB interface for camera CompactFlash cards.
August 11, 1999 -- Hagiwara is now offering the FlashGate
CompactFlash Reader/Writer USB (US $85.00), a USB drive that can
read and write CompactFlash cards (type 1) used in digital camera and
PDAs. Both Windows and Mac drivers are available and downloadable
from Hagiwara's web site.

Late News Update: a Response from Lismore. August 9, 1999
-- This morning, we received this response from Alexander Yalovenko
of Lismore Software:

Thank you for being interested in Lismore Software
Systems company. I would like to announce that Lismore Software
Systems Ltd. is ALIVE and very soon will appear on-line!

Lismore seems gone for good, but Power Emulator still
available. August 9, 1999 -- The Lismore web and ftp sites and
e-mail host have not reappeared after we reported they disappearing
last week. (See News of August 4th).

However, Al Moore said that the company's Blue Label Power
Emulator (BLPE) is still available at Club
Mac's Downloadable Software site for US $29.95 (listed under
"operating systems"). (We've posted Moore's message about his
experience with BLPE on our Blue Label
Power Emulator page.)

MacWindows wonders if we'll see BLPE appear again under another
name. The product seems good enough to be bought by another
company--but not for US$19.95, the price Lismore originally asked.
From the beginning, we wondered about Lismore's business model of
selling BLPE at such a low price, given the large engineering effort
required to create a PC emulator for Macintosh. BLPE was selling at
the same price as one-task shareware utilities that were much easier
to create. If BLPE is reincarnated, we expect it will cost somewhat
more than $20.

Sharing a ADB mouse keyboard with PC via USB. August 9,
1999 -- Bob Andris sent us a description of an unusual Mac-PC
keyboard, mouse, and monitor sharing setup. The unusual part is that
he is sharing an Apple Desktop Bus (ADB) mouse and keyboard with a PC
via some switch boxes and a USB card in the PC. Nearly everything
works, except that Windows does not recognize the right mouse button
of the Kensington ADB mouse connected through the PC USB card. We
suspect a driver issue, but aren't sure which driver to recommend.
You can see details of Andris's setup on our Keyboard
and Monitor Sharing page.

New version of TextSpresso text editor. August 9, 1999 --
Taylor Design has releases TextSpresso
1.3 (US $29, free upgrade), a Macintosh text cleaning tool that
can be used to convert text files between Mac and Windows. New
features include support support for the Euro symbol in the Mac-PC
filters, live scrolling, and an improved Character Table filter
type.

MRJ 2.1.4 makes many improvements over Apple's previous
JVM, including greatly increased performance, improved
reliability, and support for AppleScript and Sun's JFC/Swing. MRJ
2.1.4 also runs more applications and applets than earlier
versions and now includes Apple Applet Runner.

MRJ
2.1.3, released just two weeks agao, added Bronze-level
certification by Oracle for running applications built with Oracle
Developer 1.6.

MacWindows Special Forum at MacFixIt this month.MacFixIt
is hosting a special MacWindows forum at its forum area. MacWindow's
John Rizzo will answer questions about cross-platform topics during
the month of August. If you know some tricks up your sleeve, stop by
and share your knowledge. (You can also listen to an interview
with Rizzo on the Computer.Radio
radio show.)

Solution to the "Can't save file twice" problem on NT IIS
server. August 6, 1999 -- Morten Krogh Andersen found the
solution to the "can't save file
twice" problem on NT IIS we reported two weeks ago. The fix:

This problem is caused by IIS. It caches file handles for
at minute, to increase performance. Notepad and Visual Studio can
work around this, but most other editors cannot. The solution is a
registry edit, described in Microsoft KB article Q191742.

Intergraph ExtremeZ-IP Alpha version goes to beta. August
6, 1999 -- Intergraph has informed us that it has started a beta test
cycle for the Alpha version of ExtremeZ-IP,
its AppleShare-over-TCP/IP server for Windows NT. If you would like
to be a beta tester, send email
to Intergraph here.

Macs, NetWare, and RAM usage. August 6, 1999 -- Rick Zeman
responded to one point made yesterday by a reader concerning NetWare
and server RAM usage. Zeman didn't contest the suggested solution,
but took issue with the statement "You must make sure that you have
enough RAM... for 3.12 because NetWare uses more RAM when the block
size is increased." Zeman replied:

Actually, the opposite is true. The larger the block
size, the LESS memory is required. This holds true for NetWare
3/4/5. The reason is that NetWare doesn't have to have as many
directory table entries per namespace and each uses a bit of
memory. NetWare 4 and 5 (traditional volumes, not NSS), through
block sub-allocation, reclaims the wasted space inherent in using
a 64k block size.

Cross-platform info at the Moose News. August 6, 1999 --
The Moose
News web site provides news and links of cross-platform interest
about Linux/Mac/Windows.

3dfx Voodoo 3 coming to the Mac. August 6, 1999 -- A
ZDnet
story describes 3dfx, Inc's
recent announcement yesterday to support the Mac with it's new
Voodoo3 graphics/gaming chip, and its products for Mac game
developers.

Farallon announces pricing for SkyLINE Wireless PC Card.
August 5, 1999 -- Farallon announced the pricing for it's
SkyLINE
Wireless PC Card: US $299. The card, which will ship later this
month, was announced at Macworld Expo without pricing. SkyLINE is a
cross-platform 802.11 DSSS wireless card that should be compatible
with Apple's Airport when it is released.

Reader reports problems with Mac Outlook 8.2 extension
files. August 5, 1999 -- Janluc Gagne reports problems with
freezing and file corruptions with Outlook for Mac 8.2, but not when
he reverts back to 8.1. He suspects some Microsoft extension files,
including "MS Outlook OT Helper (PPC)" and the Microsoft OLE
extensions that come with Outlook 8.2 -- the OLE extensions that come
with Office 98 work fine for him. Gagne reports that Quark (which
also uses OLE extensions) was freezing with the Outlook 8.2
extensions, but not with the Office 98 extensions. His comments are
on our MS Exchange/Outlook
page.

When I was working with 3.12 years ago, I always set the
"Volume Block Size" at 64KB. File space management is not real
efficient but it did increase Mac transfer speeds. You must make
sure that you have enough RAM usually only 96-128MB for 3.12
because NetWare uses more RAM when the block size is increased.
CPU speeds can also affect transfer speed. I would assume that a
server running 3.12 must be 3-5 years old. 1MB per second is
probably respectable for a server that old.

Lismore emulator web site disappears. August 4, 1999 -- The
web site of Lismore Software
Systems, Ltd., seems to have gone off-line as of yesterday, with
the URL returning a DNS error ("server does not have DNS entry").
Lismore is the maker of the Blue Label Power
Emulator (BLPE). We sent an e-mail inquiry to Sergey Bobrov,
president of Lismore Software Systems, but the message returned a
similar error message (Name server: lismoresoft.com: host not
found).

The disappearance of the web site is reminiscent of the long
development period of BLPE, when the Lismore web site would
temporarily disappear, only to reappear at some later point in a new
form.

Using PC monitor profiles with ColorSync on Mac. August 4,
1999 -- If you are using a non-Mac monitor on a Mac, a new Apple
Tech
Info Library article 60449 describes how to use DOS/Windows
monitor profiles to calibrate the monitor using ColorSync. This
involves converting ICC monitor profiles to the ColorSync profile
type.

Another suggestion for Outlook Mac/PC sharing of calendars and
contacts. August 4, 1999 -- Colin Marrow offers another
workaround for sharing Contacts and Calendars between Macs running
Outlook 95 and PCs running Outlook 2000, with Exchange Server 5.5
SP2. We've posted his solution on our Outlook/Exchange
page. However, Marrow admits that the this method may not be particle
on a large network, as it requires a de-install and reinstall of
Outlook on all PCs.

Novell NetWare 3.12 acting slow. August 3, 1999 -- David
Lobell reports of problem with a Novell 3.12 with the AppleTalk NLM
loaded. File copies from a Mac are very slower, about 1 MB per
minute. This occurs on all of his Power Macintosh models running Mac
OS 8.1 and later. If you've seen this problem before, let
us know.

Motorola to get into Linux. August 3, 1999 -- PC
Week reports that next week Motorola will announce that it will
supply embedded Linux systems.

Update on AFP/IP for NT: more test results. August 2, 1999
-- We've posted a report by Rob Frank, who tried TeamASA'sMacServerIP 6.1
and Intergraph's ExtremeZ-IP,
and preferred the latter. His report includes details of his
configurations, tests, and results with ExtremeZ-IP, along with a
suggestion or two. You can read Frank's report on our AFP-over-IP
servers for NT page.

Update: AppleShareIP 6.2 fixes WordPerfect for Win
compatibility problem. August 2, 1999 -- Arthur Deptford says
that AppleShare IP 6.2 fixed the problem he was having with corruption
of WordPerfect for Windows files with Windows clients: "We have
just upgraded to AppleShare IP 6.2 and it appears to have solved the
WordPerfect for Windows incompatibility completely."

Changing MIME types for QuickTime 4 plugin. August 2, 1999
-- Apple Tech
Info Library article 36508 gives step-by-step directions with
screen shots on how to set QuickTime 4 plugin to open or not open
certain types of files. This needs to be done from a web browser.

Mac OS X Server doesn't support multiple UFS partitions on one
drive. August 2, 1999 -- Apple Tech
Info Library article 31068 reports Mac OS X Server does not yet
support multiple UFS (Unix File System) partitions on a drive, but
you can have multiple hard driver that you can format in UFS.

Crackerjack 3.0, print production workflow using PDF for Win
and Mac. August 2, 1999 -- Lantana is shipping Crackerjack
3.0 for Macintosh and Windows 95/98/NT, a color print production
workflows system that uses PDF. New features include pre-separated
output to laser proofs on desktop printers and an option to generate
Quark Desktop Color Separations (DCS) files directly from PDF. ($195
until September 30, 1999, $495 retail.)

PeachPit releases Little Network Book: Win and Mac networking
for novices. August 2, 1999 -- PeachPit Press has released the
Little
Network Book for Windows and Macintosh by Lon Poole and John
Rizzo. It is aimed at home users and small businesses who may not be
able to afford a network server or a network consultant. Although
some cross-platform info is provided, it is not the focus of the
book. The Little Network Book can show you how networking works on
the "other" platform, whichever that happens to be.

July

New Tips: Enabling Mac-Windows sharing of Outlook
calendars. July 30, 1999 -- Byrne Lovell offers two suggestions
for having Mac Outlook 8.2 access Windows 95/98 calendar data, which
he says he got from a telephone call to Microsoft. You'll find these
tips on our Exchange/Outlook
page.

New report: MacServerIP vs. ExtremeZ-IP both beat NT SFM.
July 30, 1999 -- William Campbell sent us a detailed report on
his testing of TeamASA'sMacServerIP 6.1
and Intergraph's ExtremeZ-IP,
with comparisons to NT Services for Macintosh (SFM), which both
products are designed to replace. The conclusions of Campbell's
report:

Equivalent speed for MacServerIP and ExtremeZ-IP: up to 8
MB/second for a single client. NT SFM yielded 1 MB/sec.

New Tip: Sound problem from I/O card can prevent Virtual PC
from booting. July 30, 1999 -- Adrian Walti discovered that
Virtual PC is affected by an apparently unrelated problem in the
beige Power Macintosh G3. The problem is a loose I/O card, called
Personality Card, can cause problems with the Monitors & Sound
Control see (Tech
Info Library article 24503). Walti discovered that this loose
card also prevents Virtual PC from loading with the error
message:

internal error -1856. program is terminating

However, Walti says VPC only has this problem in Mac OS 8.5.1, but
not OS 8.1. The fix is to reseat the I/O card. We've added this tip
to the MacWindows Emulator Tips
page.

New Tip: Mac users dialing into NT RAS. July 30, 1999 --
The backslash is a common separator in PCs and used throughout
Windows, but there are Mac users who don't know that. For several
months, Christian Pendleton unsuccessfully attempted to log onto his
company's NT RAS server. Then it occurred to him:

Suddenly I realized what was wrong. I have to log in with
the username set to <server domain name>\<user name>.
The problem was that it previously never occurred to me to use the
backslash (\) as a separator. Now it's no problem even with the
RAS server running MS-CHAP.

AOL makes instant messaging deal with Apple
while battling Microsoft. July 30, 1999 -- At the same time
AOL
is blocking Microsoft software from communicating with its
instant messaging feature, AOL
yesterday made a messaging deal with Apple. The agreement allow
apple to "create instant messaging products for Mac users that will
allow seamless communication between Mac users and the AOL Instant
Messenger (AIM) service."

WebTerm 1.5, Y2k upgrade for terminal emulation from web
browser. July 30, 1999 --White Pine is now shipping WebTerm
1.5 for Windows 95/98/NT and Macintosh, a Y2K compliant upgrade
for the software that lets you run terminal emulation sessions from a
web browser. WebTerm provides TN3270, TN5250, and VT420 terminal
emulation, among other features.(Starts at $229,upgrade
prices vary.)

How to move Outlook email messages from Mac to PC. July 29,
1999 -- Several readers responded to the question of how to move
received Outlook messages from Mac to PC. The answer is simple: keep
your messages in the Inbox. When in the Inbox, you can see the
messages from either Mac or PC --even simultaneously. There is no
need to move any files.

If you do have your messages in personal folders, you won't be
able to access them from another computer. If you want to move
messages that are in personal folders, you can read a tip from Bill
Reynolds on how to do this on our Exchange/Outlook
page. Thanks to everyone who responded.

More Outlook Tips: Attachments. July 29, 1999 -- Bill
Reynolds sent us two Outlook tips on moving around Mac attachments on
PCs, and forcing Outlook to recognize attachments. These are also on
our Exchange/Outlook page.

Correction: ExtremeZ-IP does support multiple NICs. July
29, 1999 -- Yesterday we erroneously reported that Intergraph's
ExtremeZ-IP
doesn't support multiple network interface cards. In fact, it does.
We regret the error, and apologize to Intergraph and our readers.

Macs running X11 can now access Windows apps via Citrix NT
servers. July 29, 1999 -- Yesterday, Citrix Systems announced
that it is shipping Citrix
UNIX Integration Services ($1,495 per server). The new server
software enables enables Macs, Windows, and UNIX clients running an
X11 client to access Windows applications running on Citrix MetaFrame
for NT Server 4.0, Terminal Server Edition, and the WinFrame servers.
Macs can already access these application sharing servers via Citrix'
ICA Client for Macintosh. X11 (also called X Window) isn't as "thin"
as an ICA client, in that it the user's computer does more
processing. However, there are lots of X11 display software around,
some of it open source.

InfoWave posts updated utility for PowerPrint for Networks.
July 29, 1999 -- InfoWave has posted an update to the Infowave
Namer utility (download here), which comes on the CD-ROM for
PowerPrint for Networks 4.5.9 (software that enables Macs to printer
to PC printers). The new version of Infowave Namer fixes a bug that
prevented it from displaying more then 10 zones. (View the Readme
file here.)

Compaq losses $184 million, will cut up to 8000 jobs. July
29, 1999 -- Yesterday Compaq
announced a quarterly loss of $184 million. The world's number
-one PC manufacturer said it would cut between 6000 and 8000 jobs,
and take restructuring charge along the lines of $700 million to $900
million.

MacServerIP test results with multiple network cards. July
28, 1999 -- Tim Schutt sent us some test results of with MacServerIP
on an NT server with three network cards: over 22 MB/sec over all
three cards. You can read Schutt's comments on AFP-over-IP
servers for Win NT page.

MacaNTee upgrades adds features for Mac-NT domain
integration. July 28, 1999 -- Alaran has posted MacaNTee
1.10, the latest updated to its software that integrates Macs
into NT domains. The new version fixes bugs and adds over a dozen new
features, including:

A global menu in the menu bar to allow simpler access to
logout and lock.

Be Inc. delivers Be OS 4.5, but still won't run on G3
systems. July 28, 1999 -- Be, Inc., has released the latest
version of its OS for PC and Macintosh hardware, Be
OS 4.5. The new version adds support of USB and PCMCIA, AppleTalk
printing, and support for more video and audio codec standards, among
other things. However, BeOS still won't run on Apple G3 systems. Be
says this is because Apple
won't give Be the technical specs it needs.

Apple pulls article on LPR windows printing. July 28, 1999
-- Apple seems to have removed Tech
Info Library article 30921, which provided trouble-shooting tips
for LPR (TCP/IP) printing with AppleShare IP 6 Print Server, includes
some brief instructions on adding network printers to a Windows NT
server. A link from another TIL article to this one is broken, and
TIL searches no longer bring it up.

ExtremeZ-IP developer responds to charge of poor memory usage.
July 27, 1999 -- Group
Logic, the company that developed ExtremeZ-IP
from Intergraph, has responded to our report yesterday from a reader
who claimed he experienced "poor usage of memory " with "high
pages/second" in Windows NT. Rob Newberry, lead engineer for
ExtremeZ-IP responds on our AFP-over-IP
servers for Win NT page. (ExtremeZ-IP is an AFP-over-IP file
server for Windows NT and Mac clients that began shipping last
Friday. See yesterday's news for more information.)

AFP-over-IP for NT competition heats up, as new MacServerIP
release adds new features. July 27, 1999 -- Meanwhile, there's a
new version ExtremeZ-IP's competitor, MacServerIP
6.1. (MacServerIP is marketed by TeamASA,
but the new version of AFP-over-IP server for NT is currently
available from Cyan, the developer of the software.) According to
Cyan, the update (available for Intel and Alpha) does two main
things:

Permits up to millions of files on a volume without problems
(disappearing icons, etc.) For testing the behavior of an AFP
server with many files per volume, Cyan offers TestFileLimit.zip,
which can create millions of files on a volume for testing.

ExtremeZ-IP vs. MacServerIP: readers compare SFM alternatives
for NT. July 27, 1999 -- Two readers have sent in reports
comparing ExtremeZ-IP to MacServerIP. They agree that both products
are faster than NT Services for Macintosh. It seems ExtremeZ-IP is
easier to use, but MacServerIP has more options. John Mark Owston
found ExtremeZ-IP to be slightly faster than MacServerIP, at 11
Mbytes per second on 100BaseT. He also found that Gigabit Ethernet
did not significantly speed up file transfers. Thomas Clifford points
out that there is an Alpha version of MacServerIP, but not
ExtremeZ-IP at this time. You can read both reports on our AFP-over-IP
servers for Win NT page.

Net Radio show discusses MkLinux. July 27, 1999 -- David
Gatwood sent us a notice about a radio show called Interactive
Technologies from the University of Michigan. Today, Jaime Magiera,
the host of the show, posted a QuickTime version of an interview
with Gilbert Coville and David Gatwood about MkLinux (Apple's
Linux for Macintosh). An interesting broadcast for those interested
in Linux on Mac.

Apple releases Mac OS Runtime for Java (MRJ), certified by
Oracle. July 27, 1999 -- Apple posted Mac
OS Runtime for Java (MRJ) 2.1.3, which fixes some memory and
applet security bugs. The new release also has a Bronze-level
certification by Oracle for running applications built with Oracle
Developer 1.6, deployed on Oracle Developer Server, and using Apple
Applet Runner.

More details on ExtremeZ-IP, AFP/IP server for NT. July 26,
1999 -- Intergraph has provided us more information about ExtremeZ-IP
for Windows NT, which it released last Friday. (See news item, July
23 below.) In addition to providing AFP-over-IP file service for Mac
clients, ExtremeZ-IP includes a "hot folder" for RIP jobs to speed
performance for a large number of RIP tasks.

ExtremeZ-IP is now available by itself or as a bundle with one of
Intergraph's MacFriendly
NT machines, the InterServe servers and TDZ 2000 ViZual Workstations,
available from Intergraph Computer Systems' value-added resellers. By
itself, the Windows NT Workstation version is US $299. The Windows NT
Server version is US $999 for up to 10 clients, US $1399 for
unlimited clients.

Reader's tests with ExtremeZ-IP show quick speed, but
inefficient memory usage. July 26, 1999 -- Eric Kammerzelt ran
some "quick and dirty" tests on Intergraph's
ExtremeZ-IP. He found good performance, but found evidence of
inefficient memory usage on the NT server, which might result in
slowing of the NT server. You can read
Kammerzelt's message on our newly revamped AFP-over-IP
servers for Win NT page.

Win 2000 Pro Beta 3 has problem mapping with ASIP drive.
July 26, 1999 -- Hanz Makmur reports of a problem with Windows
2000 Professional beta 3 as a client of AppleShare IP 6.2. If he maps
a Network Drive using Microsoft Networking in Win 2000 Pro to ASIP
6.1 or 6.2, he can see only the top level folders and nothing after
the first level. Without mapping the ASIP volume, he can access the
entire volume. He has tried this on two different PCs with the same
result. However, the problem does not occur when he tries to Map a
Mac volume shared with Thursby's DAVE. If you've noticed this
problem, please let us
know.

Outlook 8.2 Personal Address book bug. July 26, 1999 --
John Wolf commented on our report of new type and creator codes in
the Outlook 8.2 for Mac address book with the report of a bug that
can change the type code. When Outlook crashes upon quitting, it can
change the "_PAB" type code to "????" which you then have to change
back. You can read Wolf's report on our Exchange/Outlook
page.

Reader can't save a file twice in a row on SFM. July 26,
1999 -- Erik Wessel reports that under certain circumstances, he
can't re-save a file to an NT SFM volume for a minute or so. His
message is on our NT Unsolved
Mysteries page.

Update for MacVision, Mac-like GUI for Windows: bigger bug fix
next month. July 26, 1999 -- Jeff Bargmann has posted an update
to MacVision,
his Windows front end that adds a replica of the MacOS 8 Finder to
Windows. Bargmann says the new version is faster, adds a Mac
scrollbar, and fixes some bugs. This version does not fix a bug which
"causes MacVision to crash for some Windows 95 users and all WinNT
users when the cursor passes over the Control Panels menu item in the
Apple Menu." Bargmann promises a fix for this in August.

Intergraph posts demo of AppleShare-over-TCP/IP server for
Windows NT. July 23, 1999 -- Intergraph Computer Systems has
posted a demo version of ExtremeZ-IP,
an AppleShare (AFP)-over-TCP/IP file server for Windows NT Server and
Workstation. Like a similar product, MacServerIP,
ExtremeZ-IP replaces NT Services for Macintosh. Intergraph claims the
ExtremeZ-IP server can deliver files at up to 20/Mb per second.
(Intergraph also sells MacFriendly
line of Windows NT workstations.) We've added Extreme-IP to our
Network Solutions page.

Readers offer tips on moving Outlook messages from Mac to PC.
July 23, 1999 -- Several readers have sent in their techniques
for moving email messages from Mac to PC. We've posted them on our
Exchange/Outlook page.

We've also added some information about type and creator codes for
Outlook 8.2 client for Macintosh files.

Farallon explains the difference between its wireless solution
and Apple's. July 23, 1999 -- In yesterday's news, we reported
that Apple's AirPort and Farallon's SkyLINE are both 802.11 DSSS
wireless products, but had different rates of speed. We also asked
about compatibility between the two. Farallon's Nicole Martin
explained:

Yes, we are in the preliminary stages of testing SkyLINE
with Apple's AirPort and it is looking promising as far as
compatibility is concerned. As for the data throughput difference,
here is the skinny:

Today all vendors with 802.11 DSSS wireless products, including
Lucent, are shipping 2 Mbps solutions. The 11 Mbps 802.11 standard
has just recently become ratified and new silicon has just come
out. The reason Apple's Airport has a range of 150 feet while
Farallon's SkyLINE has an indoor range of 300-500 ft is that the
higher the data throughput speed, the shorter the operating
range.

As 11 Mbps 802.11 silicon becomes available and vendors move
towards this standard, Farallon will be right along with them. Do
note that 802.11 11 Mbps solutions will be backwards compatible
with the 802.11 2 Mbps solutions shipping today.

32-bit drivers for PC/DOS Compatibility cards delayed. July
23, 1999 -- Fraser Valley Distributing Computing Systems (FVDCS) is
pushing back the date for releasing PC
Setup 2.0, software that will enable old Apple PC/DOS
Compatibility cards to run 32-bit Windows drivers. A few months ago,
FVDCS said that a beta would be available by now. The company now
says it may not do a beta release, but expects final shipment at the
end of the summer.

Lotus Notes Release 5. July 23, 1999 -- After offering
several betas, IBM says that Lotus
Notes R5 client for Mac OS and Windows will be released in a
month or two.

Cross-platform News from Macworld Expo
New York

Connectix unveils Virtual PC 3.0. July 22, 1999 --
Yesterday, Connectix (Booth 741) demonstrated Virtual
PC 3.0 for the first time, and provide some more
details. (As we reported on June 25, Connectix first
announced the new version by posting a VPC
3.0 FAQ at its web site.) Connectix says the "key
feature" in the new version is USB device support. There's
also faster disk performance and network access, according
to the company, which does not claim speed improvements in
the emulation engine. VPC 3.0 also adds two features
previously only found in Insignia's SoftWindows: the ability
to share a single Internet link between the Mac and Windows
environments, and Sound Blaster 16 support. VPC 3.0
apparently does not support Linux (Connectix dropped Linux
support in version 2.1.3). VPC 3.0 will ship in late
September. Pricing is $179 for Windows 98, $149 for Windows
95, $49 for PC-DOS. The upgrade is free if you bought VPC
2.x between June 19, 1999 and December 31, 1999.

Apple adopts IEEE 802.11 DSSS, X-platform wireless
networking with iBook. July 22, 1999 -- Apple teamed
with Lucent
Technologies to implement an existing high-speed
wireless networking technology in its iBook
($1599, shipping in September) consumer notebook, which
Steve Jobs announced at his keynote speech yesterday. The
standard is IEEE
802.11 DSSS. (Lucent produces the WavLan
series for PCs using this standard.) Apple's products
for iBook are called AirPort,
which can transmit data at an Ethernet-like 11 megabits per
second. AirPort is an option for the iBook, consisting of an
internal AirPort Card ($99) and the AirPort Base Station
($299), but every iBook comes with a built-in IEEE 802.11
DSSS antenna.

AirPort Base Station contains a 56K modem and a 10/100
BASE-T Ethernet port for connecting to a cable modem, DSL
modem or local network for Internet access. iBooks -- or
IEEE 802.11 PC notebooks -- need to be within 150 feet of
the AirPort Base Station. IEEE 802.11-equiped PCs can
communicate provided they use DSSS, or Direct Sequence
Spread Spectrum (DSSS), not Frequency Hopping Spread
Spectrum (FHSS), an incompatible alternative that is part of
the IEEE 802.11 specification. (See Apple's AirPort
FAQ.) Third-party IEEE 802.11 DSSS products for Mac --
such as Farallon's new SkyLINE (see news item below) --
should also be compatible with AirPort.

Farallon announces wireless IEEE 802.11 DSSS PC Card
for Macs and PCs. July 22, 1999 -- Meanwhile, Farallon
(Booth 1637) introduced its own IEEE 802.11 DSSS-compatible
product, the SkyLINE
Wireless PC Card, with drivers for Windows 95/98/NT
notebooks and PowerBooks. Farallon said that computers with
SkyLINE cards can connect directly to each other, or can
connect to an Ethernet network via an IEEE 802.11
DSSS-compatible access point, such as those from Lucent,
Nokia (formerly InTalk), Maxtech, and Zoom. Sources say that
although Farallon has not yet tested SkyLINE with Apple's
AirPort Base Station, it is expected to be compatible work.
However, there are some differences from Apple's AirPort
Card: the throughput is smaller (2 Mbps vs. 11 Mbps) and the
range is greater (300-500 ft vs. 150 ft for AirPort). Users
don't need to restart the computer when a SkyLINE card is
inserted.

The SkyLINE Wireless PC Card is expected to ship by the
end of August. Farallon has not yet announced pricing.

Microsoft announces Outlook Express 5.0, address
X-platform encoding problems. July 22, 1999 -- Microsoft
(Booth 618) announced that it would ship Outlook
Express 5.0 for Mac in the fall, and that it would be a
free download. Among the new features is something called
Smart Attachments that seems to address the problem of
encoding an attached file in a Mac encoding scheme that
Windows software can't decode:

Outlook Express 5.0 now lets users drag and drop
attachments and instantly select the appropriate encoding
without needing to know complex terminology, so
attachments are readable the first time they are opened.

Microsoft also announced a stand-alone Microsoft Word 98
Special Edition for Mac ($99 with $30 rebate until Jan. 31,
2000), to ship on August 26. It will be bundled with clip
art, Outlook Express 4.5, and Internet Explorer 4.5.
Microsoft also announced an IntelliMouse for Macintosh (see
News item below.)

Steve Jobs pushes QuickTime TV network, open source
streaming servers. July 22, 1999 -- As his keynote
speech, Steve Jobs expanded on Apple's vision of QuickTime
as a cross-platform Internet standard by introducing a new
concept called "QuickTime
TV," or "QTV," and by promoting open source and free
QuickTime streaming servers. Jobs said the QuickTime TV
delivers the highest-quality live streaming over the
Internet for Windows and Mac by combining the free QuickTime
4 players and streaming servers with a standards-based
broadcast network and brand-name content. Jobs announced
that Apple
has partnered with Akamai Technologies to create a QTV
delivery network. (See Akamai
web site.) Jobs also announced new
QTV providers, including ABC News, Disney, ESPN,
RollingStone.com, VH1, and Virgin Radio. (Other streaming
broadcasters include BBC World, Bloomberg TV, FOX News
Online, FOX Sports Online, HBO, and The Weather Channel.

Currently, the QuickTime streaming server is free with
Mac OS X Server, and the Darwin
Streaming Server, which includes source code. Jobs
predicted that QT streaming servers would eventually be
ported to other platforms. (Apple also posted instructions
for downloading QuickTime
Streaming Server 1.0.1 Update for Mac OS X Server.)

IBM announces ViaVoice voice recognition for Mac.
July 22, 1999 -- Steve announced that IBM is doing a
Mac
version of ViaVoice, its highly rated continuous speech
recognition software. Although a release date was note
announced, IBM's Ozzie Osborne (no relation to the rock
star) lead a demonstration of dictating words to a Mac,
while ViaVoice for Mac turned everything that was said into
typed words.

Epson announces multifunction printers for Mac,
Windows. July 22, 1999 --Following Cannon's announcement
of Mac compatibility with its multifunction printers (see
yesterday's news), Epson announced three USB and parallel
port multifunction printers for Macintosh and Windows. The
StylusScan
models are inkjet printers that can also do color scanning
and copying. The models will ship in October for $349, $499
and $699.

Microsoft to bring optical IntelliMouse to Mac.
July 22, 1999 -- Microsoft announced that it would do a
version of its optical USB
IntelliMouse Explorer with Mac software. The two buttons
are programmable from a Mac.

XLR8 shows 2-button, scroller mouse for USB, PCI
Macs. July 22, 1999 -- XLR8
(Booth 1525) demonstrated Point&Scroll ($29.95) USB
mouse along with its DualPort USB card for non-USB Macs,
which together, along with some software, make up the
USB
Performance Package ($99, or free with the purchase of a
MACh Speed G3 or G3Z, 300 MHz or higher). This enables the
Point&Scroll to be used with any PCI Mac.

The scrolling functionality of the Point&Scroll
mouse, which has been shipping separately for several
months, is more common on PC mice. (The scroller part of
many PC USB scrolling mice often doesn't work on Macs.) The
scrolling function can be programmed directly rather than
using X, Y coordinates, according to XLR8. You can scroll
while keeping the curser in another place. Both programmable
buttons can automatically engaging Mac OS Contextual menus
and key commands and horizontal scrolling. We've added
Point&Scroll to our Keyboard
Solutions page.

Other news of the day:

FileMaker, Inc. re-releases FileMaker Update 4.1v3 for Win and
Mac. July 22, 1999 -- FileMaker, Inc., has re-released FileMaker
Pro Update 4.1v3 for Windows and Mac, as well as Update 4.0v3
(for FMP 4.0). The company had pulled the v2 updaters due to "Y2K
issues," and had recommended that users back-grade to 4.1v2. (See
news item from July 13)

Cross-platform News from Macworld Expo New York

Steve Jobs to deliver keynote. July 21, 1999 --
Today, Steve Jobs will deliver the keynote address at
Macworld Expo in New York. We will post any cross-platform
news from the speech tomorrow.

Miramar to bundle DataViz MacOpener with PC MacLAN for
Windows. July 21, 1999 -- Starting later this month,
Miramar
Systems' PC MACLAN (AppleShare file and printer
client/server software for Windows) will get the ability to
read/write Mac disks. Miramar will include a copy of
DataViz'
MacOpener utility with PC MACLAN for Windows 95/98
v7.2.1 and the PC MACLAN for Windows NT v4.1. MacOpener
enables Windows users to read, write to, and format Mac
formatted disk media, including floppies, Zip and Jaz
cartridges, CDs (read), and other removable media.

Prosoft Engineering releases beta of NetWare 5 AppleShare
NLM. July 21, 1999 -- Prosoft Engineering has released a Beta
version of NetWare
5 Services for AppleShare, a set of NetWare Loadable Modules
(NLMs) that install on the server and provides AppleTalk file and
print services over a Novell 5 network. In the past, Novell had
offered similar AppleTalk NLMs with earlier versions of NetWare. It
has not done so with Network 5, however.

Prosoft also provides an alternative solution for Macs, NetWare
Client for Macintosh, which implements NCP over IPX on the client
side. Both the beta server NLM and the Mac client can authenticate to
Novell Directory Services (NDS).

Prosoft has not announced availability for the AppleShare NLM, but
has announced pricing: $495 for one server, $125 for education.

"Changes to Network Filesystem (NFS) to improve its operation
and stability,"

"You no longer need to configure TCP/IP to use only
AppleTalk."

"You can now format disk image files on UFS volumes from
MacOS.app; for example, when creating a new StartupDisk.img file
using createimage."

Be goes public. July 21, 1999 -- Be,
Inc. yesterday offered 6,000,000 shares of its common stock at an
initial public offering price of $6.00 per share. The company makes
Be OS, an operating system that runs on Mac and PC hardware.

When a user activates the Windows Help file tool (for
example, by pressing the F1 key) this vulnerability may be used to
run a program and may cause the Help file tool to stop responding
(hang).

The fix is for Systems with NT Service Pack 5 installed. (See
Knowledge
Base document Q231605 for more info.) Mac clients aren't
involved, but we'd thought you want to know.

Can you answer an Outlook question for us? July 20, 1999 --
Several readers have asked if there is an efficient method of
transferring recieved Outlook for Mac email messages to Outlook for
Windows. If you think you have a good method, please let
us know.

Be, Inc. to go public. July 20, 1999 -- A cnet
story says that Be, Inc. will be
offering public shares of stock this week. The company makes Be OS,
an operating system that runs on Mac and PC hardware.

Of interest at Macworld Expo this week:

Tenon to demo iTools 5.0 for Mac OS X Server. July
20, 1999 --Tenon
Intersystems announced that it will be demonstrating
iTools
5.0 at Macworld Expo this week (booth 1538) in New York,
NY. iTools 5.0 is a set of tools that beef up Mac OS X
Server's networking capabilities. Tenon says:

Included with iTools is SSL 3.0 to support
multiple secure virtual hosts and certificates from
authorized CAs, state-of-the-art caching and advanced
proxy services that augment the built-in Apache proxy
services, a Sherlock-savvy high-performance search
engine, and support for WebObjects.

Tenon will also be demonstrating to other new products:
WebTen
3.0, an Apache web server for Mac OS; and NetTen 1.4, a
Mac version of Software.com's Post.Office, a POP/IMAP mail
server with SPAM control.

Vicomsoft to introduce new version Of Internet Gateway
and SoftRouter July 20, 1999 -- Vicomsoft
(booth 1637) will introduce new versions of its Internet
link-sharing software for Macs and Windows, Internet Gateway
and SoftRouter Plus Internet.

Details of TSStalk and Mac NFS now at Thursby's site.
July 19, 1999 -- Thursby Systems has posted details of its new
TSStalk
($149 single user) and MacNFS,
as reported here last Friday and on June 25. TSStalk is based in the
old COPStalk AppleShare Client for Windows. (Unlike Miramar's
PC MacLAN, TSStalk is not
two-way, as it does not provide an AppleShare file server.) TSStalk
also enables Windows PC to print to AppleTalk Postscript printers.
Like the last version of COPStalk (before Thursby acquired it),
TSStalk can connect to AppleShare IP servers using TCP/IP. You can
download
a TSStalk manual in .PDF format.

MacNFS is
an NFS file sharing client for Macintosh, letting you mount
UNIX-resident volumes on the Mac desktop. MacNFS uses Apple's
single/double file formats to store and access Mac files on UNIX
applications. MacNFS will be available later this fall. Thursby, the
maker of DAVE, has also redesigned its web
site. (See our Network
Solutions page for products similar to these.)

It works from PC's because the "Winsock Proxy" DLL communicates
with the Proxy Server and allows UDP traffic to be forwarded. I
believe this is somewhat similar to how SOCKS5 works - except it is
transparent to the client software (in this case QuickTime).

LATE POST, MACWINDOWS EXCLUSIVE:
Thursby Systems to announce TSStalk: AFP client for Windows based on
CopsTalk; Also will acquire MacNFS. July 16, 1999 -- As we first
reported on June 25, Thursby
Systems will announce TSStalk, an AFP (AppleShare compatible)
file sharing client for Windows 95/98 based on CopsTalk. Two press
releases will be released either later today or Monday. Pricing
starts at $150 for a single copy, but multi-packs are available.

Thursby also told MacWindows that it will announce "the
reacquisition of the MacNFS technology from NetManage."

QuickTime 4 streaming problems with MS Proxy Server 4. July
16, 1999 -- An Apple web page called Firewalls
and QuickTime 4 mentions if you use a SOCKS proxy server, that
you'll need a SOCKS version 5
server in order to view QuickTime 4 streams from clients.
Unfortunately, Microsoft Proxy Server 2.0 is compatible with SOCKS
version 4. Also unfortunately, MS
Proxy Server 2.0 cannot "chain" to upstream SOCKS servers, as is
incorrectly stated in the Glossary of the Proxy Server 2.0
documentation. (For more on Macs and MS Proxy Server, see our
Server Tips page.)

Minor upgrade for NetFinder improves access to Proxy
Server. July 14, 1999 -- There's a new beta version of NetFinder
2.0.1.b1, a SOCKS-compatible shareware FTP Mac client that works
with Microsoft Proxy Server. Among the fixes is "tweaked support for
SOCKS servers."

Solutions update: Mac OS emulator for Linux. July 14, 1999
-- We've added Mac-on- LinuxPPC to our
Operating Systems Solutions page. Mac-on-LinuxPPC a Mac OS
emulator for LinuxPC running on a Macintosh. Because it runs on a
Mac, it doesn't need to emulate the processor.

Lismore posts version 1.5 of Blue Label PowerEmulator. July
13, 1999 -- Lismore Systems has posted and update to version
1.5 of its Blue Label
PowerEmulator. (For background info on this emulator, see our
BLPE pages.)

Qualcomm unloads Now Contact and Now Up-to-Date, Eudora
Planner. July 13, 1999 -- Yesterday, Qualcomm announced that it
was licensing
Now Contact/Now Up-to-Date for Macintosh , as well as Eudora
Planner (the Window version) to Power
On Software. Qualcomm had acquired Now Contact/Now Up-to-Date
well over a year ago, and had released a Windows version, but had
never release a shipping Macintosh version.

Until the 4.1v3 updaters become available, FileMaker recommends
that Windows customers uninstall FileMaker Pro 4.1v2 and reinstall
FileMaker Pro 4.1v1. For Macintosh customers, it is recommended that
you reinstall FileMaker Pro 4.1v1.

Emulators on Mac OS X Server: SoftWindows runs, Virtual PC
doesn't yet. July 12, 1999 -- Andrew Hendrycks has done some
experimenting with running Virtual PC and SoftWindows. With Virtual
PC, he go an error message saying that this version is "not
compatible with Blue Box." SoftWindows, however, not only ran, but it
seemed faster than under straight Mac OS:

I tried running MacOS X then booting into MacOS and
launching VPC. In case you have not seen yet through testing,
Virtual PC comes up with an interesting error. It specifically
states that this version is "not compatible with Blue Box."

Hmmmm. I have already been notified that myself and most of
Apple will be receiving Connectix's version of VPC for OS X. This
eliminates almost all of the speed loss of emulation. It is
exactly like running X Windows on Unix or NT in a Shell.

Again with OS X Server and SoftWindows 95 v5. It actually runs!
There are a few quirks like some drawing problems in the display (not
a big deal) and you lose the ability to use your CD ROM. However,
unless my mind is playing tricks it runs noticeably faster. I brought
one of our Directors over and he was quite surprised at the
difference. The logic would have stated that "emulating" the MacOS
and then emulating a second time for Windows would have made Windows
pathetically slow. Add to that reports that the MacOS runs slower
under OS X and things seem a bit confusing.

MacBochs, shareware PC emulator, gets new look and feel.
July 12, 1999 -- The shareware x86 PC emulator MacBochs
has been updated to version 990708. The new version features
interface improvements such as the ability to run the emulated PC in
a Mac window, as well as in full-screen mode. There is now a Mac
menubar (in addition to the old key commands), and better Windows
mouse support that fixes some problems with single and double
clicking. The emulator does not yet support CD-ROMs, Ethernet or
sound.

Quark posts Word filters for Mac and Windows. July 12, 1999
-- Quark has posted import
and export filters than enable XPress to open or save Mac and
Windows files in Word 6, 7, and 8 (95, 97, and 98) for. The filters
are available for Mac and Windows.

Apple posts Mac Runtime for Java 2.2 Prerelease. July 12,
1999 -- Apple has posted a prerelease version of Macintosh Runtime
for Java 2.2. Of the beta software, Apple says "Use at your own
risk!" Emulator, Inc. to ship new fast Mac emulator for PC, as
well as new version of Gemulator. July 9, 1999 -- At Macworld
Expo in New York starting July 21, Emulators
Inc., will introduce a new Macintosh emulator for PCs, Gemulator
SoftMac, which will ship August 2. Unlike Emulator Inc.'s other
Gemulator products, Gemulator SoftMac uses Macintosh ROM image files
to boot the Mac OS, as do competing products (see the MacWindows
Emulator Solutions page). The
company says "This is the world's fastest Macintosh emulator for
Windows, running Mac OS 8 many times faster than similar emulators
using a true 32-bit DirectX based emulator. Fusion PC users can
upgrade to Gemulator SoftMac for only $79."

Emulator, Inc. will also ship the latest version of it's current
Mac emulator, Gemulator
Pro 6.1 (starting at $199.95), which uses a ROM card to hold
actual Mac ROMs. The new version adds support for Windows 98 Second
Edition and Windows 2000.

Both products emulate a 680x0 processor. So far, no one has
shipped a PowerPC emulator, though several companies (including
Emulator, Inc.) have claimed to be working on one.

Orange Micro update adds USB support, PCI expansion; updates
BIOS. July 9, 1999 -- Orange Micro posted OrangePCi
3.3.1, the latest software update for its OrangePC Pentium boards
for Macintosh. The upgrade adds support for USB printers and floppy
disks and support for PCI expansion chassis. It also updates BIOS and
Video BIOS on some models, and fixes some bugs.

QuickTime Streaming Server 1.0.1 boosts performance, supports
Linux/Intel. July 8, 1999 -- Apple posted QuickTime
Streaming Server 1.0.1 for Mac OS X Server, and for the first
time, Linux on Intel-based PCs. (The latter is called the Apple Open
Source Streaming Server.) Both are free. According to Apple, the new
version doubles performance, and is now also available in French,
German, and Japanese versions. The server can send on-demand
QuickTime to the 8 million Windows and Mac QuickTime clients which
Apple says have been downloaded.

Mk Linux 1.0 Distribution released. July 8, 1999 -- Apple's
MkLinux team has posted a
preliminary version of the MkLinux-1.0
pre-Release, a new version of this Linux release for Macintosh
hardware. The group warns of slow response times from the ftp site,
though we did not experience a problem. The MkLinux.org web site has
also upgraded recently.

AppleScript causes Mac clients to hang with NT Server. July
7, 1999 -- Microsoft Knowledge
Base article Q231274 discusses a condition in which Macintosh
client can hang when you search for files on the server. A previous
solution to this problem is to turn off
CatSearch with a registry edit (described on our Server
Tips page). However, this Knowledge Base article says that the
problem can occur even with CatSearch turned off when an AppleScript
on the Mac requests a CatSearch. Microsoft recommends removing an
AppleScript that does this.

Microsoft offering fix for NT 4 SFM AppleTalk bug via telephone
tech support. July 7, 1999 -- Microsoft Knowledge Base article
Q232298 describes a fix
to the file SFMATALK.SYS. The bug, called "STOP 0x0000000A in
SFMAtalk Because of Invalid Frame," can cause a blue screen with at
STOP 0x0000000A if Services for Mac is installed on NT Server 4. This
bug, which was not fixed with Service Pack 5, is not
posted, and is only available by calling Microsoft technical support.
(The fixed Sfmatalk.sys file is dated 05/10/99.)

Microsoft posts hotfixes for NT Service Pack 5 bugs. July
7, 1999 -- Microsoft recently posted a couple of hotfixes for NT
Service Pack 5 that fix problems that can cause crashes or hangs.
Microsoft describes a hotfix for CSRSS,
(Client Server Runtime Subsystem) like this:

On a computer running Windows NT, a denial of service
condition exists if a malicious process is run locally or if an
improperly written service is installed. If more than the maximum
number (16 by default) of processes that require user input are
started without receiving the corresponding input, the server may
stop responding (hang). This vulnerability affects Client Server
Runtime Subsystem (CSRSS), which is otherwise known as the Win32
subsystem.

Another hotfix called LSA3-fix
(Local Security Authority) " fixes a bug that can cause a crash
do to a security problem: "A specially malformed request to the
Microsoft Local Security Authority (LSA) service may be used to
exploit a security vulnerability on a Windows NT-based computer."

Mac problem with HP DeskJet 810C printer via USB. July 7,
1999 -- Apple reported a problem
with Macs and an HP USB printer: "Your Macintosh will freeze if
you disconnect the USB cable to or power off your HP DeskJet 810C
while printing to it."

Mac OS X Server changing file names. July 7, 1999 -- Apple
reports that you can't directly change the capitalization of file
names on HFS
Plus volumes on Mac OS X Servers. (UFS volumes are okay.) The
workaround is to first change the file name to something different as
an intermediate measure

Microsoft readies Neptune: NT for the masses. July 6, 1999
-- ZDNet
reports that Microsoft is reading the first internal versions of
a NT-based Windows for the consumer, code-named "Neptune," for
shipping in April 2001. According the ZDNet story, the OS will sport
a new "Web-like" interface, and a self-repairing technology called
"WinTone,"
which has a slogan "It just works."

Compression Solutions update: MacTar handles Unix format.
July 6, 1999 -- We've added MacTar
to the list of utilities on our Compression
Solutions page. MacTar (from Strout.net) is Mac software that
compresses and decompresses files in "tar" (tape archive) format used
on Unix. It works with both tape and floppies.

REALbasic for Mac now available in Europe. July 6, 1999 --
Nova Group International will distribute REAL
Software's REALbasic 2 ($99.95 Standard Edition, $299.95
Professional Edition) in Europe. REALbasic 2 Professional includes a
compiler that lets you create Windows 95/98/NT applications from the
same source code as Mac apps. It also includes an ODBC database
engine.

Apple sues PC makers for copying iMac
design. July 2, 1999 -- Yesterday Apple
filed suit against Future
Power and its parent company, Daewoo
Telecom, PC manufacturers that Apple says illegally copied the
"industrial design" of the iMac. The suit, filed in U.S. Federal
Court in San Jose, CA, seeks to stop Future Power from shipping its
E-Power
($799), an Intel-based PC running Windows 98 that is slated to ship
in September. The suit also asks for actual and punitive damages. An
Apple spokesperson would not comment with regards to our inquiry.

MacImage lets you create Mac CD-ROMs on PCs via a virtual Mac
volume. July 1, 1999 -- MacImage
from Logiciels & Services Duhem is a new Windows utility to
enable you to create hybrid (HFS/ISO) or pure HFS Macintosh CD-ROM
from a PC. (There's also a French-language
MacImage web page.)

MacImage borrows a long-used technique from emulators and
coprocessor cards by creating a virtual Mac HFS partition in a PC
file. (Emulators and coprocessors use virtual FAT drives in a Mac
file.) The MacImage utility lets you move files between the virtual
Mac partition and Windows directories. When you have all the files
you need, you can copy the HFS partition onto the ISO partition or
burn it as a pure HFS CD-ROM. (L & SD has posted a MacImage
tutorial in English and in
French.)

The developer says that it will be adding all of MacImage's
features to it's higher-end MacScuzzy, a Windows utility that enables
PCs to read Mac drive (which has been listed on our Disk
Solutions listings.) We've added MacImage to these listings.

Reader finds strange Quark/NT SFM "Y2.018k" bug. July 1,
1999 -- Ingo Jonsson was looking for Y2K problems with his NT Service
Pack 4 server, when he found a Y2K-like problem with Services for Mac
and Quark Xpress:

If you put the Date of the NT-Server on 2018 and later,
it is not possible to load Quark 3.32 and 4.0.x files in which
images (eps,tif) are introduced.

We've recommended that Jonsson try Service Pack 5, but the problem
could also be with Quark. We've posted Jonnson's message on the
MacWindows NT Unsolved Mysteries
page.

Beta of PC Setup for PC Compatibility cards set for July
23. July 1, 1999 -- Fraser
Valley Distributed Computing Systems (FVDCS) expects to ship a
beta of it's third-party PC Setup 2.0 on July 23, according to the
company. PC Setup is the software for the discontinued
Apple/Reply/Radius 486 and Pentium coprocessor cards based on the DOS
and PC Compatibility Cards for Mac. Apple's versions of the PC Setup
don't support Windows 32 drivers, but PC Setup 2.0 will. From a
recent post on the MacDOSCard
mailing list:

We have however, made excellent progress and have a feasible
solution in sight. Staff are programming code right now. We have
created a 32 bit VxD and a thunking layer. We are working at
integrating the existing Apple assembler code. There are eight
modules in the software, six of them are complete.

Outlook 8.1 conflict: ObjectSupportLib a pre-OS 8.0 Apple
file. July 1, 1999 -- The "ObjectSupportLib" extension file that
causes a conflict with Outlook 8.1
is an old Apple file used for managing Apple Events in Mac OS 7.5
through 7.6.1. Unfortunately, by default, the installers for versions
of Navigator and Communicator earlier than 4.05 install it by
default. You can do a custom install to avoid installing it. (If you
already have it on Mac OS 8.0 and later, through it away.) Indiana
University Knowledge Base has more detailed info on
ObjectSupportLib is in some detail. (Thanks to J. Jordan for sending
us this link.)